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Joining in this tour offers you a great opportunity in exploring mystical places of Mongolia that listed in UNESCO World Heritage. And the tour allows you to experience the authentic culture of different ethnic groups of Mongolia who inherited their tangible and intangible heritages alive from the generation to generation.
Length: 16 nights / 17 days
Tour starting: 05th of june
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• Category : Cultural tours Mongolia
• Places to visit: – Ulaangom town – Uvs lake – Uureg lake – Turgen mountain – Ulgii town – Nomad community – Ulgii town – Ulaanbaatar – Gurvanbulag – Kharakhorum – Khustai National Park – Ulaanbaatar
• Activities: Exploring at UNESCO World Heritage site, attending an ethnic ceremony, visiting archaeological sites, staying with nomads and Kazakh family and learning ancient musical tradition, hiking and trekking
• Duration: 16 nights / 17 days
• Covering distance: 4760kms
• Number of participants: min 3, max 12
• Season: June – mid September
Day 1 Welcoming day
Arrive in Ulaanbaatar the capital city of Mongolia. Transfer to your hotel. After the refreshment break, we will start our tour to visit Chinggis Khaan Square and Zaisan memorial on the Bogd Khan Mountain that provides a 360° panoramic view over the city. Visit the Bogd Khan Winter Palace Museum. Later, enjoy the traditional art performance and Welcome dinner. Stay overnight in the hotel. BD
Day 2 Travel to western Mongolia
Morning transfer to airport and take a flight (3hours) to Ulaangom town, the center of the Uvs province. After arrival we will move to the center of the town to check-in at local hotel. Late afternoon we will visit the local community who kept well their cultural heritages of “Khoomii” throat singing, “Bielgee” folk dance and “Tsuur” ancient musical instrument. Enjoy and attend a demonstration with locals. Stay overnight in local hotel. BLD
Day 3 Exploring around the Uvs Lake – UNESCO World Heritage Site
Morning we will travel about 60kms to the Biosphere Reserve Uvs lake Basin, which listed on UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997. It has an area of 3350 km² and known as the most northern desert and the most southern tundra zone. The Basin of Uvs Lake is protected because of the different ecosystems, and it is home to 173 species of birds and 41 species of mammals. There are snowfields with tundra and the desert of Altan Els where two different landscapes meet at one place. The Uvs Lake basin has an extraordinary temperature range as the lowest winter temperature is about -58 degree Celsius while summer temperature rises up to 40 degree Celsius. Here, we will hike and enjoy watching birds at the shore. Travel back to Ulaangom for 60kms and stay overnight in the hotel. BLD
Day 4 Travel to Uureg Lake
Today we will continue our trip for 100kms to Uureg lake that locates in the middle of the Mongolian Altai Mountains Range. On the way enjoy a short hike around the lakeshore. After having a lunch we will explore ancient statues remained from 6th-9th centuries. Stay overnight in Ger camp. BLD
Day 5 Trekking
Today we will enjoy a round trek about 3-4hours for 7-8kms. We will trek to neighboring mountain where we can explore ancient rock art-paintings (petroglyphs) as dating back to 3000-5000 years. When we reach to the top of the mountain we will enjoy a beautiful view of the Snow covered peaks of Turgen Mountain Range. Afternoon we will be traveling back to Ger camp. Stay overnight in Ger camp. BLD
Day 6 Travel to Ulgii town
After the breakfast we will continue our journey to Ulgii town about 200kms. It will be a great opportunity to experience different ethnic groups’ culture and amazing traditions. Once we visit a Kazakh family, we will be able to distinguish the Mongolian and Kazakh nomads’ culture that includes in many elements, for instance, architecture of the Ger, meals and living customs. The Kazakh Ger is larger than the Mongolian Ger. You will experience living in a Kazakh Ger in next days. Stay overnight in local hotel. BLD
Day 7-8 Learning & practicing ancient musical instruments
Travel for 90kms to Buyant valley where we can take an opportunity to learn and practice traditional music instruments and experience well reserved traditional culture of ancient Mongols. Here we will enjoy playing “Tsuur” (nomadic kind of flute) instructed by the family member as learning blowing technique to use the teeth, tongue and lips… The tunes that are played on the Tsuur, are usually the sound of water or animal like sound of singing birds. And traditional Mongolian Tsuur music is listed in Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO in 2009. Full two days we will enjoy with the community of Uriankhai ethnic nomads, live in the beautiful valley. Stay overnights in Ger of nomad family. BLD
Day 9-10 Staying with Kazakh nomads
We will move for 40kms to visit Kazakh families who are well known by their hunting practices by trained Golden eagles. While we stay with a Kazakh family we will have an opportunity to learn more on this unique tradition as well as Kazakh people’s lifestyle and customs. And we can practice a Kazakh traditional music instrument with two strings, called “Dombor”. The Kazakh music and songs are related to their heroic-epic stories and legends of the ancestors. Stay overnights in Ger of Kazakh nomad family. BLD
Day 11 Travel to Ulgii town
Today we will travel for 60kms back to Ulgii town. Visit local ethnographic museum and local marketplace. Stay overnight in local hotel. BLD
Day 12 Flight to Ulaanbaatar
Move to local airport for taking a flight (3.5hours) to Ulaanbaatar. Arrive in Ulaanbaatar and transfer to your hotel. Having a rest. Stay overnight in the hotel. BL
Day 13 Travel to Central Mongolia
On this day, we will continue our tour about 280kms to a nomadic community at Gurvanbulag valley in central Mongolia where you can see a beautiful landscape of mountain, rolling steppe and Gobi desert – all at one place. On the way we will visit to Khar Bukhiin Balgas, an interesting remain of ancient castle of nomad tribes dated back to 10th century. Afternoon we can enjoy a demonstration of horsemen to train an untamed horse and attend in making hobble and halter by home processed leather. We will be spending overnight in community based Ger camp. BLD
Day 14 Exploring Orkhon valley – UNESCO World heritage site & Karakorum city
On this day, we will continue travel about 70kms to a famous cultural and historical site where many statues of ancient Tureg Empire as dated back to 6th-8th centuries are discovered. We will visit the museum and then continue our travel to Kharakhorum, the city was founded in 1220 by an adoption of Chinggis Khaan and destroyed in 14th century. Later it rebuilt as a first Buddhist monastery in Mongolia. We will visit the Buddhist temple complex of Erdene Zuu and Historical museum. Stay overnight in Ger camp. BLD
Day 15 Travel to Khustai National Park
Morning we will drive to Khustai National Park which covers about 50,620 sq.km area. Visit the Information Center for having an introductory presentation of the National Park. In the park, we will see wild horses (known as Prezawalski horse) and other wild animals like deer and marmots. Stay overnight in Ger camp. BLD
Day 16 Travel to Ulaanbaatar
In the morning, we will drive about 100kms to Ulaanbaatar. Later afternoon, we will go to Zanabazar’s Fine Art museum. Shopping for souvenirs and cashmere. Farewell dinner. Stay overnight in the hotel. BLD
Day 17 Departure
Transfer to airport for departure. B
• Date of departures 2015 (start in Ulaanbaatar):
UN 01 05 Jun
UN 02 03 Jul
UN 03 31 Jul
UN 04 21 Aug
Price from:
USD 4390per person
Included: All activities described in the itinerary, twin/double basis hotel accommodation (3 nights) in Ulaanbaatar, stay in local hotel (4nights) and Ger camp stay (4 nights), stay in community based Ger camp (1 night), stay in Ger of nomad family (4 nights) in countryside, English speaking guide service, round trip domestic flight, entrance fees to Protected Areas, all transfers by bus/mini bus/ in the city and by 4WD Russian minivan in the countryside. Meals of breakfast, lunch /picnic during the trekking in countryside/ and dinner as mentioned per day itinerary.
Excluded: International transportation to and from Mongolia, travel insurance, mineral (bottled) water and alcoholic drinks, sleeping bag, tips and gratuities, laundry and items of a personal nature.
An advantage of this trip you can travel through different zones and enjoy vast open spaces with natural contrasts within several days. During the trip, approximately it takes 4-7 hours driving from one to next destination. Each 1-1.5 hours, we have a short stop frequently for photographs, toilets, stretch and meet with local nomads. In the countryside, we use 4WD vehicles, specially, Russian minivans and Japanese jeeps. Normally, 2-3 people are in one jeep with luggage. The minivan has capacity of 7 people with luggage. All vehicles used in our tours are insured and carefully prepared before departures. Our drivers are also good mechanics, have many years of experience for driving through unmarked, unpaved bumpy roads in the countryside.
Overnight we stay tourist camp. It is very enjoyable for the guests to stay in tourist camps when they are in countryside. Most of the tourist camps supply the Mongolian traditional dwelling “Ger” as guest’s accommodation. Ger is a very convenient dwelling as moveable, dome-shaped and constructed of wooden framework and felt cover. Tourist Ger is heated by a wood stove and furnished with traditionally painted wood-framed beds (with full sized mattresses 137x190cm) or hotel standard size beds with clean sheets, comforters, pillows and blankets. Normally, three or two beds are in one Ger. If the client wants to stay alone in a Ger there will be an additional charge. The camp provides restaurant/bar, western-style toilet, washing facilities and showers. The numbers of low-impact eco Ger camps are increased and many business people started in practicing for environmentally friendly concepts in last year’s. We prefer and cooperate with Ger camps that follow this core responsibility and able to provide best services for our clients.
When you stay in Ger camps, the camp provides meals of mostly western cuisine and also we can enjoy Mongolian traditional cuisine. Sometimes there are not many choices for meals in tourist Ger camps due to their remote location. Mostly we have picnic lunch from ger camps. It is also available to have and taste traditional dairy products such as yogurt /Mongolian name is /tarag/, dried milk curds /aaruul/, milk tea /suutei tsai/, fermented mare’s milk wine /airag/, sour cream /tsotsgii/ and cheese /byaslag/ when you visit to nomad herder families.
Generally, in Mongolia water quality is good. But you are advised to buy mineral water. Bottles of Mineral water are available from shops, food markets and kiosks in capital and many of the provinces centers and tourist Ger camps in the countryside. Mineral or bottled water usually exclude in our offers since we try to produce as less garbage as possible. But other hand we provide well plenty of drinks like tea and coffee during our tours.
